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 enlarge | Author: Rick Bragg
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 7724
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 140004040X
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.1063092
EAN: 9781400040407
ASIN: 140004040X
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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 My husband loves this author July 18, 2008
My husband read Rick Bragg's first book and loved it so much that he ordered everything Bragg has ever written. Great Southern author.
 A prince of a book! July 16, 2008
I'd read this, and then got Large Print book for my father for Father's Day. He loved it! Ricky Bragg has now again created a wonderful heartwarming story, full of laughs, great stories, and great truths about his perception of his father and his turn at parenting his step-son. We highly recommend this.
The Prodigal Father Redeemed July 15, 2008
Thanks to Luke, we're familiar with the prodigal son. Thanks to Rick Bragg in his new third Bragg family memoir, The Prince of Frogtown, we meet the prodigal father: Bragg's violent alcoholic father, Charlie, who caused Bragg so much trauma and anguish in his early years that he and his brother had written their father off as unredeemed and unredeemable. Bragg's deep deep pain, savored and nourished over a lifetime, finally, at age 45, had to be dealt with. It helped that Bragg, best selling author of All Over But The Shoutin' and Ava's Man, controversial former New York Times feature writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, teacher of writing at The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, had the good fortune to marry for the second time, after being single for 20 years. Diane, "the woman," as she is known in Frogtown, has three sons. The youngest one, Jake, (a little child shall lead them) opens Bragg's eyes again to what it means to be a little boy: for Jake, for Bragg, but most importantly, for Bragg's written off father, Charlie. Bragg is forced to search for his real father, looking at all the forces that sculpted and shaped him from boyhood, knowing that just writing him off will write much of himself off and will take Bragg himself unredeemed to his own grave, with no peace in the meantime. So Bragg searches for his father by talking to all the cotton mill town folk and relatives and Korean War buddies in Jacksonville, Alabama who knew him in that part of town where the fighting, hard drinking, hell-raising Braggs lived, Frogtown. What Bragg finds and how he goes about telling us about it and what it does to him and Jake and their relationship is on a par with anything William Faulkner or Thornton Wilder or Ernest Hemingway or Harper Lee ever wrote. Read this book, real soon. Real soon. If you delay, delay only to read All Over But The Shoutin' and Ava's Man first.
The Prince of Frogtown July 14, 2008
I've read and loved every word Rick Bragg has published so far. His descriptions of places, things, and people always make me wish I could have been there, seen and known those things and people. 'Decriptive writing' doesn't get much better than this author's! How wonderful to realize that R.Bragg now has a family of his own and I wish him much happiness. How lucky for 'The boy' to have such a wonderful man for a step-father and like-wise 'The woman' couldn't have found a better man to share the rest of her life with. Once I start reading book by Rick Bragg I don't accomplish much else that day. I'll certainly be watching and waiting for his next publication !
Powerful Stuff.... June 28, 2008
Rick Bragg is a story par excellence. So simply written [not simplisticly... then I would not bother to write this], yet capable of painting a mental picture that brings you into whatever the author is writing about. I hung out with guys like Rick and his cast of characters back in the day. Each line brings me back to where I used to be and into the new stories as the pages fly by. Great stuff!
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